Item Summary

Versified treatise on debated points of law. The text was composed in 504 H. (see end of text, fol. 137b).

Descriptive Information

Title
منظومة في الخلافيات
Transliterated Title
[Manẓūmah fī al-khilāfiyāt].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3614Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ff3657870
Publisher
[1447]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1447
Format
Manuscript
Extent
139 leaves : paper ; 273 x 183 (155 x 105) mm. bound to 275 x 200 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1670
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 428/II ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 11 lines per page in two columns. Written in medium large script in black ink. The text is vocalized. Final yāʾ dotted. Thick cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 138 is a later addition (European paper). Important interlinear and marginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (blank between fol. 74 and 75). Loose quires and leaves.
Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 71".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by ---? ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥiḍr(?), 27 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 850 [Feb. 13, 1447] (fol. 137b).
Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين بسم الاله رب كل عبد والحمد لله ولي الحمد
Explicit: جنات عدن وقصورا ناعمه
Binding Note
Placed in binding in brown leather, with flap. Mended.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
147

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6c8a9b10-65f5-4b48-8f3f-7c882ba41239/manifest